Quotes About Duty

Keep the kingís command, I say, because of your oath before God.

When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.

As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

“And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.

Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

One day while Zechariahís division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

And when the days of his service were complete, he returned home.

And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”

Still another said, ëI have married a wife, so I cannot come.í

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ëCome at once and sit down to eatí?

Instead, wonít he tell him, ëPrepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drinkí?

Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ëWe are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.í”

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Those who have believing masters should not show disrespect because they are brothers, but should serve them all the more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage these principles.